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[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nWe have just released an add-on to PostgreSQL supporting the GORDA\nArchitecture and Programming Interface (GAPI). This opens up support for\nDBMS\nindependent replication middleware, aimed at eager and multi-master\nreplication in clusters and WANs.\n\nThe implementation of the GAPI i...
[ { "msg_contents": "Folks,\n\nThis just came out of the GORDA project. I'd love to see the comments of our \nreplication/clustering geeks here on the list.\n\n--Josh\n\n\n---------- Forwarded Message ----------\n\nSubject: [Hackers] Standard interfaces for replication providers\nDate: Friday 04 August 2006 0...
[ { "msg_contents": "Cool! Then let's make a stronger claim about the feature: 'data management using partioning now with transparent insert/update/delete support in addition to the already proven performance acceleration in previous releases.\n\n\n- Luke\n\nSent from my GoodLink synchronized handheld (www.good....
[ { "msg_contents": "A fresh cvs update of -HEAD produces the following when I attempt to import a \ndump that has a domain using a SQL function as part of the check constraint. \nThis error only shows while using COPY for more than 1 row. Inserts work \nfine. Find attached a simple self contained test case.\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "I was just looking at Martin Lesser's gripe here:\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-performance/2006-08/msg00053.php\nabout how the planner is not real bright about the filter conditions\nit generates for a simple partitioning layout. In particular it's\ngenerating scans involving self-c...
[ { "msg_contents": "bruce wrote:\n> Tom Lane wrote:\n> > Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:\n> > > Dave Cramer wrote:\n> > >> Bind also has a statement name, as well as a portal name ?\n> > >> \n> > >> Ideally I'd like to see the parameters which were bound and the \n> > >> types, but I suspect I'm reachi...
[ { "msg_contents": "In README.pgcrypto, Section 2.3 \"Deprecated functions\" says that\ndigest_exists(), hmac_exists(), and cipher_exists() are planned to\nbe removed in PostgreSQL 8.2. Those functions still exist -- should\nthey be removed or does that section need updating?\n\n-- \nMichael Fuhr\n", "msg_d...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI found maybe interesting article \nhttp://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/db2/library/techarticle/dm-0603wasserman2/\n\ngood days\nPavel Stehule\n\n_________________________________________________________________\nCitite se osamele? Poznejte nekoho vyjmecneho diky Match.com. \nhttp...
[ { "msg_contents": "All,\n\nIn the spirit of our previous discussion, I am writing to inform you\nthat Mark Cave-Ayland and I will be working on this TODO-item\ntogether. We are thinking through a new design (not based on the\ncurrent patch) and will post it to -hackers for approval soon.\n\n-- \nJonah H. Harri...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm noticing that if the current XLOG offset is exactly at a segment\nboundary (ie, the last wal record just filled the segment) then the\nvarious user-level functions return offsets that could be interpreted\nas the start of the next segment, eg\n\nregression=# select pg_switch_xlog();\n pg_...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm noticing that buildfarm member hyena sometimes fails the parallel\nregression tests, for instance\nhttp://www.pgbuildfarm.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=hyena&dt=2006-07-19%2009:20:00\n\nThe symptom is always that one of the tests fails entirely because\npsql couldn't connect:\n\npsql: could ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI see that the installcheck-parallel was not added to the top level \nMakefile and Gnumakefile.in when it was added as a regression test \ntarget back in the 8.0 cycle. Is there any objection to my adding it now \nso that it is treated the same as the other regression test targets? If \nso,...
[ { "msg_contents": "Greg,\n\n> As I've stated before, it sure would be nice if there was any \n> possible way this could be done for 8.2. This would be a \n> *huge* feature for\n> 8.2 to have, and it frankly needs all the \n> big-item-yet-easy-to-grasp features it can get. Is there any \n> way this could be done...
[ { "msg_contents": "A client was recently complaining about problems with not being able to\nuse a database during a vacuum. It wasn't completely clear what exactly\nwasn't working, but what I'm really wondering about is the last status\nmessage:\n\npostgres 1857 0.6 0.8 20964 12900 ? D 15:03 0:00 ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello\n\nI suggest enhance plpgsq to simultaneous assignment. Main reason is missing \nparameter passing by reference and less readable getting values from \nfunctions with OUT parameters.\n\nCurrently I have to write SELECT: SELECT INTO a,b,c out3fce(1)\n\n\na,b,c := out3fce(1); -- Simultane...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n-----Original Message-----\nFrom: \"Tom Lane\" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>\nTo: \"Greg Sabino Mullane\" <greg@turnstep.com>\nCc: \"pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>\nSent: 07/08/06 04:42\nSubject: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status \n\n\n> I'm constantly amazed at the w...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello\n\nPackage contains package's variables, shared protected functions and \ninitialisation part, which is executed when any public function attached to \npackage is called. Every package has defined only one language. The reason \nfor this is binary compatibility of package's variables. P...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've a table that stores hierarchical information in a ltree field for fast access, indexed with a GiST index.\n\nInteresting Problem with ltree/GiST index: sometimes, the index will get corrupt, as seen by the examples below:\n\nWRONG\ndb=# SELECT path from strukturelemente where path ~ '142...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm in process of reviewing the restartable-recovery patch,\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2006-07/msg00356.php\nand I'm wondering if we really need to invent a \"standby mode\" boolean\nto get the right behavior. The problem I see with that flag is that\nit'd be static over a...
[ { "msg_contents": "I got notice of this from a local database reading group:\n\thttp://research.aol.com\n\nLooks like the data they are providing is information retrieval oriented \nfor non-commercial research use only but could potentially be an \ninteresting data set to test with.\n\nMark\n", "msg_date": ...
[ { "msg_contents": "the just added new buildfarm member leveret (fedora core5 x86_64) is\nbuilding with the recently released Intel C-compiler version 9.1.\nIt passes all tests on -HEAD but fails on make check in both\nREL8_1_STABLE and REL8_0_STABLE.\nThe logs of the later two branches also contain a very large...
[ { "msg_contents": "We create psql scripts that can be used at various times by various \nusers. I have been unable to find how to absolutely set various options \n(timing, expanded, etc.) rather than toggle them.\n\nThe --no-psqlrc option provides a partial workaround - as long as the \nuser remembers to includ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello all, hope you are remembering me, some years ago I've designed the \nPgAccess , the Tcl/Tk visual interface to PostgreSQL.\n\nThought you haven't received any news from me, I continued working with \nPostgreSQL, being involved in very big projects in Romania.\nRight now, the national id...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi\n\nSince the discussion about how to force a specific plan has\ncome up, I though I'd post an idea I had for this a while ago.\nIt's not reall well though out yet, but anyway.\n\nWhen the topic of optimizer hints comes up, people often suggest\nthat there should be a way to force postgres ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nIt seems odd to me that implicit casts are checked for when you call a\nfunction but not when you're implicitly calling a function via a cast. As a\nresult there are a *lot* of redundant casts in our catalog, essentially n!\ncasts for a domain with n types in it. So for example there are 13...
[ { "msg_contents": "Log Message:\n-----------\nAdd detail on packages:\n\n> \n> \t\t A package would be a schema with its own variables,\n> \t\t private functions, and initialization functions\n>\n\nModified Files:\n--------------\n pgsql/doc:\n TODO (r1.1938 -> r1.1939)\n (http://developer.po...
[ { "msg_contents": "bruce wrote:\n> \n> OK, seems this should be a separate application, not done in the TODO\n> list, and I am not willing to take on that additional workload.\n\nLet me add that anyone who has CVS commit access or wants to submit\nTODO patches can keep the TODO updated in this way.\n\n---------...
[ { "msg_contents": "bruce wrote:\n> bruce wrote:\n> > \n> > OK, seems this should be a separate application, not done in the TODO\n> > list, and I am not willing to take on that additional workload.\n> \n> Let me add that anyone who has CVS commit access or wants to submit\n> TODO patches can keep the TODO updat...
[ { "msg_contents": "> Is it would be nice , if packages have been ;\n\n> 1. Package level variables (Public variables)\n\nis very hard for imlementation, and it's actually impossible. Needs large \nchanges in code\n> 2. Package member level variables (Private variable)\n\nI plan it, in every PL language\n>...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nThe following bug has been logged online:\n\nBug reference: 2569\nLogged by: James\nEmail address: im-james@hotmail.com\nPostgreSQL version: 8.1.4\nOperating system: Windows 200 Pro SP4\nDescription: statement_timeout bug on Windows\nDetails: \n\nI'm using the la...
[ { "msg_contents": "Is there a way to determine which datatypes take a length argument (eg. \nvarchar, time, etc...) by looking in the system catalogs? pg_type doesnt seem \nto have the info... or is there a single place in the back end code that \ncontains this info? \t\n\n-- \nRobert Treat\nBuild A Brighter LA...
[ { "msg_contents": "Platypus just started failing...\nhttp://pgbuildfarm.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=platypus&dt=2006-08-09%2010:05:01\n\nRest of the farm is looking pretty green, though, so I'm not sure what\nto make of it... but\nhttp://pgbuildfarm.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=platypus&dt=2006-08-09%2009:05:01\ni...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nA number of people have asked me about this, so I'll just post the info \npublicly.\n\nOn August 1st I started work for Anchorage Capital LLC as a Senior \nSoftware Engineer. I am currently doing some urgent infrastructure work, \nbut in the longer term this job will involve some quite heav...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello all. \n\n I am trying to build postgres from the source on a WINXP system. I am\nusing MSVC++.Net and I use the link with it to get to the command prompt.\nAfter I do that I run vcvars32.bat and the nmake /f win32.mak and I get:\n\n \n\nC:\\Dev\\postgresql-8.1.4\\src>nmake /f win32...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI will be basically unavailable from this Saturday until the 21st of \nAugust. I will be spending a long week in SF at LinuxWorld West.\n\nPlease use email to contact me if it is important.\n\nSincerely,\n\nJoshua D. Drake\n\n-- \n\n === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, In...
[ { "msg_contents": "While thinking about index-organized-tables and similar ideas, it \noccurred to me that there's some low-hanging-fruit: maintaining cluster \norder on inserts by trying to place new heap tuples close to other \nsimilar tuples. That involves asking the index am where on the heap the \nnew tupl...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n-----Original Message-----\nFrom: \"Jim C. Nasby\" <jnasby@pervasive.com>\nTo: \"Bruce Momjian\" <bruce@momjian.us>\nCc: \"Josh Berkus\" <josh@agliodbs.com>; \"Christopher Browne\" <cbbrowne@acm.org>; \"pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org\" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>\nSent: 09/08/06 17:00\nS...
[ { "msg_contents": "It appears that when you create a view of a union, numeric data types\nloose their scale and precision.\n\ndb=> create table t1 (c1 numeric(4,2));\nCREATE TABLE\n\ndb=> create view v1 as select c1 from t1;\nCREATE VIEW\n\ndb=> \\d v1\n View \"brian.v1\"\n Column | Type | Modi...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\nI had a customer call in today they are running Win2003 with 22 gig of \nram (that may be a mistype on their end, it may be 32gigs of ram).\n\nThey cranked up their postgresql max_connections to 500.\n\nWhen PostgreSQL hits above 400, it dies and I don't mean a slow crawl \ntype dea...
[ { "msg_contents": "Log Message:\n-----------\nMove \"#define inline __inline\" from port/win32.h to c.h because Win32\ninterface builds like libpq need it.\n\nBackpatch addition to 8.1.X.\n\nModified Files:\n--------------\n pgsql/src/include:\n c.h (r1.209 -> r1.210)\n (http://developer.postgr...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\n-----Original Message-----\nFrom: \"Marc G. Fournier\" <scrappy@postgresql.org>\nTo: \"Dave Page\" <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk>\nCc: \"Jim C. Nasby\" <jnasby@pervasive.com>; \"Bruce Momjian\" <bruce@momjian.us>; \"Josh Berkus\" <josh@agliodbs.com>; \"Christopher Browne\" <cbbrowne@acm.org>;...
[ { "msg_contents": "I tested it on the CVS head source.\n\nC:\\> ver\n\nMicrosoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]\n\n$ uname -a\nMINGW32_NT-5.1 BEAR 1.0.11(0.46/3/2) 2004-04-30 18:55 i686 unknown\n\n$ pwd\n/home/uniware/pgsql/src/interfaces/ecpg/test/sql\n\n$ make\ngcc -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arit...
[ { "msg_contents": "At the link:\n\nhttp://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/source.html\n\nIt gives some style configuration code to put in the .emacs file.\nHowever, when I do that, emacs doesn't appear to follow the style of the\npostgresql source. For instance, inside a function definition emacs\nalways ind...
[ { "msg_contents": "I've been reviewing Jonah's INSERT/UPDATE RETURNING patch, and I've run\ninto a nasty problem with UPDATEs across inheritance trees: we really\nneed a separate instance of the RETURNING targetlist for each child\ntable. Consider\n\n\tCREATE TABLE p (f1 int);\n\tCREATE TABLE c (fc int) INHERI...
[ { "msg_contents": "What version of Bison is currently required to compile HEAD? 1.75\ndoesn't seem to work...\n", "msg_date": "Fri, 11 Aug 2006 11:05:55 +0800", "msg_from": "\"Christopher Kings-Lynne\" <chris.kingslynne@gmail.com>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "Bison Version" }, { ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nWhat's [the difference between] a record (which is a pseudo 'p' type) and\na rowtype (which's a complex 'c' type).\n\n\nRegards.\n", "msg_date": "Fri, 11 Aug 2006 11:37:24 +0300", "msg_from": "Volkan YAZICI <yazicivo@ttnet.net.tr>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nHello,\n\nDoes anyone have any good examples of implementing \"snapshot\" replication. \nI know that PostgreSQL does not have snapshot replication and that Slony-I\nis the recomended replication senario but I've configured it and it seems\nrather advanced for a shop that is implementing Pos...
[ { "msg_contents": "This is an updated version of the PL instrumentation plugin patch that I\nsubmitted on July-28. The new version re-implements the plugin loader\ncode to use \"rendezvous variables\" as suggested by Tom Lane (thanks Tom,\nvery elegant design).\n\nI have not implemented any support for unloadi...
[ { "msg_contents": "I'm looking at modifying the portal execution strategy so that INSERT\nRETURNING and friends will work when invoked through \"extended query\"\nprotocol. Currently, INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE queries are always executed\nunder PORTAL_MULTI_QUERY strategy, which runs the portal's queries to\ncomple...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello,\n\n\nAs previous patch seems to be forgotten I send it again, updated against\ncurrent\nHEAD.\n\nSummary of changes:\n* return SETOF as Python's sequence types (tuple, list) or using iterator\nor\ngenerator\n* return composite types as sequence (tuple, list), mapping (dict) or class\n(...
[ { "msg_contents": "Log Message:\n-----------\nplperl:\n\nAllow conversion from perl to postgresql array in OUT parameters. Second,\nallow hash form output from procedures with one OUT argument.\n\nPavel Stehule\n\nModified Files:\n--------------\n pgsql/doc/src/FAQ:\n FAQ_DEV.html (r1.111 -> r1.112)\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "Log Message:\n-----------\nAllow commenting of variables in postgresql.conf to restore them to\ndefaults.\n\nZdenek Kotala\n\nModified Files:\n--------------\n pgsql/src/backend/utils/misc:\n guc-file.l (r1.39 -> r1.40)\n (http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/...
[ { "msg_contents": "I need to write a perl module which will parse a .pgpass file into a\nreasonable data-structure in memory. I may extend it later to go in the\nother direction (given a populated datastructure, write a .pgpass).\n\nThe first question that came to mind is what namespace should I put\nthis under...
[ { "msg_contents": "Currently, psql does not show the command completion tag if it gets a\nPGRES_TUPLES_OK result. This means you won't see the tag for a command\nwith RETURNING, eg\n\nregression=# insert into int8_tbl values(1,2),(3,4);\nINSERT 0 2\nregression=# insert into int8_tbl values(1,2),(3,4) returning...
[ { "msg_contents": "A number of the buildfarm machines have been failing HEAD builds\nat the \"make check\" stage since last night, with complaints like\nthis one from emu: \n\n================== pgsql.21911/src/test/regress/log/postmaster.log ===================\nFATAL: lock file \"/tmp/.s.PGSQL.55678.lock\" a...
[ { "msg_contents": "-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----\nHash: SHA1\n\n\nHi all,\n\nA friend is getting sig11 on suse linux while trying to establish any\nconnection to postgresql. Have you seen anything like that? He is using\nPostgresql 8.1.4.\n\nHe compiled Postgresql with a common ./configure --with--ssl\n- -...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nIt has just been pointed out to me that the list archives seem to have \nstopped being updated last Wednesday. Any idea why?\n\ncheers\n\nandrew\n", "msg_date": "Sat, 12 Aug 2006 22:07:45 -0400", "msg_from": "Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_s...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello -hackers,\n\nI recently have seen the segfault with Postgres 8.1.4.\n\nThe situation in which the segfault occur is quite complicated (a lot of \ncommands in one transaction from JDBC), but Here I show the gdb core dump of \nit. From looking in my application, it seems that the core dum...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nIs anybody working on Bernd's updatable views patch? Right now I'm\nhaving a look at it -- mainly fixing some cosmetic issues right now,\nintending to eventually do an actual code review.\n\nI'll post an updated patch at some point -- if someone wants to have a\nlook or do some intens...
[ { "msg_contents": "This patch is for the following TODO item.\n\nSQL command:\n-/Change LIMIT/OFFSET and FETCH/MOVE to use int8\n\n/Since the limit/offset patch is already applied,\nthis patch is meant for Fetch/Move query.\nI have tested the patch and it works for int64 values.\nPlease verify this.\n\nThanks\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "The latest HEAD is segfaulting on startup if I have the following\nlines in postgresql.conf:\n\ncustom_variable_classes = 'plperl'\nplperl.use_strict = on\n\nIf I comment out the second line then the server starts successfully.\nPlatform is Solaris 9/sparc.\n\n(gdb) bt\n#0 0xff0340a0 in strc...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all,\n\nSince last night, Warthog build farm member (unixware) is failing the\nreturning regression test.\n\nRegression.diffs is :\n*** ./expected/returning.out\tSat Aug 12 04:52:06 2006\n--- ./results/returning.out\tSun Aug 13 14:51:07 2006\n***************\n*** 155,162 ****\n WHERE fo...
[ { "msg_contents": "Jonah's patch for INSERT/etc RETURNING included changes to allow the\nRETURNING data to be assigned to plpgsql variables, similar to plpgsql's\nversion of SELECT INTO. For instance, collect a serial column's\nassigned value with\n\n\tdeclare x int;\n\tbegin\n\t insert into mytab (data) valu...
[ { "msg_contents": "Josh,\n\nI agree entirely with your thoughts - we have to innovate to stay ahead and be noticed. Unless there are real code problems, let's include FD in /contrib.\n\nRegards, Dave\n\nRegards, Dave\n\n-----Original Message-----\nFrom: \"Josh Berkus\" <josh@agliodbs.com>\nTo: \"Tom Lane\" <tgl...
[ { "msg_contents": "FYI, I will be at LinuxWorld San Francisco tomorrow(Monday) through\nFriday. I will have only occasional Internet connectivity, so there\nmight be delays in my handling open issues.\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian bruce@momjian.us\n EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com\n\n + If your life ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Is there any way to control (enable/disable) some parts of BKI file?\n(actually, I mean not BKI files themselves but their prototypes -\ninclude/catalog/pg_*.h)\n\nFor example, I add some function to include/catalog/pg_proc.h and want\nto have ability to enable/disable it during installation ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi All,\n \n \nAs some of you already noticed and as mentioned in pgsql-hackers before, \nthe initDB process failed to run on some windows 2003 machines.\n \nAlthough this issue was already discussed by James Hughes,Martijn,Jim Nasby and others I didn't no patch was created and \nno fix was ...
[ { "msg_contents": "*\ndomains.c contains the followng snippet in domain_in():\n\n\n else* *if* (my_extra->domain_type != domainType)\n\t\tdomain_state_setup(my_extra, domainType, false,\n\t\t\t\t\t\t fcinfo->flinfo->fn_mcxt);\n\n\nWe were just looking at this code (in the context of implementing enums) and...
[ { "msg_contents": "Dear Community members, \n\nIt is with great enthuasim I announce that I have accepted an offer from \nJoshua D. Drake of Command Prompt Inc, to join his team. As former Vice \nPresident of Software Development with Wavefire Technologies Corp, I endeavor \nto leverage over 10 years of techni...
[ { "msg_contents": "Wouldn't it be weird if an update to pg_stat_activity.current_query\nactually ran that query for the selected backend:\n\n\tUPDATE pg_stat_activity SET current_query = \"SELECT 1\"\n\tWHERE procpid = 19522;\n\n-- \n Bruce Momjian bruce@momjian.us\n EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb....
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi Andrew, Regarding to your comments: > 1. a patch is generated by the program \"diff\"I will do it ,if needed> 2. before we do anything, as Tom Lane says, we need verification of the > problem, preferably in writing from Microsoft.I do understand that, but, de-facto, the current implementa...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi Tatsuo-san and folks,\n\nThis is a fix in pgbench to handle empty lines in external scripts.\nThe manual says\n| Empty lines and lines begging with \"--\" will be ignored.\nbut AFAICS, it cannot accept empty lines and exit with error.\n\n\nThe cause seems to be the usage of isspace(). The ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi All,\n \nI agree with all of you that it is strange behavior, more then that :\nOn two win 2003 machines with the same SP and last hot fixes, on one the nul device is accessible by non admin user and on other it is not.\nI also agree that the source of the problem might be something that ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI'm doing some tests of Bernd's updatable views patch and found\nsomething interesting about the RETURNING behavior\n\ntesting_uv=# create table bar (field1 integer);\nCREATE TABLE\ntesting_uv=# create view v_bar as select * from bar;\nCREATE VIEW\n\nthe rules are created as:\n\n\"_DEL...
[ { "msg_contents": "In addition to Andreas respond:\n1+2) Currently the initDB is used the tmp folder to write other \"Helper files\" that are deleted afterwards.\n \nThe fix is suggested only for win machines ,I think that redirection is more risky (as we saw with this bug) than to do redirect output to a log ...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----\nHash: SHA1\n\n\nIs there a better solution to the \"index bloat\" problem with regards\nto minimizing locking while reducing an ever-growing use of disk\nspace? In particular, it would be nice if there was a way to force\nVACUUM [FULL] to do some of the c...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi guys\n\nAndrew and I got together and worked out a more detailed idea of how we \nwant to add enums to the postgresql core. This follows on from his \noriginal enumkit prototype last year [1]. Here's a more formal proposal \n/ design with what we came up with. Comments / criticism hereby s...
[ { "msg_contents": "hi all!\n\nseahorse is struggling to submit buildfarm reports for a few days now.\nthere seems to a rather weird thing going on since what appears to\nhappen is that the build fails during \"make check\" with a crashing\npostmaster but that crash is also hanging the buildfarm-script and so it...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI've been trying to implement INOUT/OUT functionality in PL/scheme. When\nI return a record type tuple, postmaster complains with below warnings:\n\nWARNING: problem in alloc set ExprContext: detected write past chunk\nend in block 0x8462f00, chunk 0x84634c8\nWARNING: cache reference...
[ { "msg_contents": "-hackers,\n\nI'm working on a vacuum verbose log analyzer for a few weeks now. My\ngoal is to allow a more systematic study of this log output to help\nimprove the vacuum strategy.\n\nTo do so, I spent a few hours studying the vacuum code and especially\nthe way it logs what it's doing.\n\nWh...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nI have just noticed that psql's \\timing does not apply to internal \ncommnds like \\copy, which surprised me a bit. Is there any reason why it \nshould not apply at least in the case of \\copy, which after all does \nreal work, as opposed to to the client housekeeping and info functions \n...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi hackers,\n\nThere is a comment in autovacuum.c:\n| XXX todo: implement sleep scale factor that existed in contrib code.\nand the attached is a patch to implement it.\n\nIn contrib code, sleep scale factor was used to adjust naptime only to\nlengthen the naptime. But I changed the behavior ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:\n> If you're gonna fix it at 4 bytes, then I strongly suggest\n> that the value identifiers actually be OIDs assigned\n> through the standard OID-generating mechanism, and that\n> the pg_enum table have the structure\n\n... \n\n> The advantage of doing thi...
[ { "msg_contents": "> Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:\n> \n> > I think this is excessive concern for bit-shaving.\n> \n> Egads. bit-shaving is *important*. If it's 8 bytes you\n> could just use a char(4) and store 4 character text codes\n> instead. The whole reason to want this feature is\n> precisely for b...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nwhat's up with the news server? My reader can't connect since yesterday \nevening (MESZ, UTC+2). Telnetting gives:\n\nmarkus@macbook:~$ telnet news.postgresql.org nntp\nTrying 200.46.204.72...\ntelnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused\n\nA note about my current NNTP...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nafter some more reading, I am finally starting\nto grasp what Tom Lane meant with \"action at a\ndistance\". I outline below the information that\nI collected from the SQL2003 standard.\n\nUnder section 11.5 <default clause>:\n\nCase:\na) If the descriptor of S indicates that\n it re...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre ( at ) commandprompt ( dot ) com> writes:\n>> Maybe we could write a suitable test case using Martijn's concurrent\n>> testing framework.\n> \n> The trick is to get process A to commit between the times that process B\n> looks at the new and old versions of the pg...
[ { "msg_contents": "Is it time to turn on autovacuum by default in 8.2? I know we wanted to \nbe on the side of caution with 8.1, but perhaps we should evaluate the \nexperiences now. Comments?\n\n-- \nPeter Eisentraut\nhttp://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/\n", "msg_date": "Thu, 17 Aug 2006 18:32:13 +02...
[ { "msg_contents": "Guillaume Smet has asked how the new protocol-level bind parameters in\nthe log file can be processed cleanly by scripts, especially if\ndouble-quotes appear in the string.\n\nI think the fix is to use single quotes for bind strings, rather than\ndouble quotes, and to double literal single qu...
[ { "msg_contents": "Bruce Momjian wrote:\n> Larry Rosenman wrote:\n>> Alvaro Herrera wrote:\n>>> Bruce Momjian wrote:\n>>>> Matthew T. O'Connor wrote:\n>>>>> Bruce Momjian wrote:\n>>>>>> Matthew T. O'Connor wrote:\n>>>>>> \n>>>>>>> and increasing the log level when autovacuum actually fires off\n>>>>>>> a VACUUM...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI'm reworking Bernd's updatable views patch. I haven't found any\nshowstoppers yet, which doesn't mean there aren't any. On the other\nhand, the functionality is severely limited, per spec, so really the\nthing is not all that difficult.\n\nI'm rewriting several parts of the patch, a...
[ { "msg_contents": "On postgresql anniversary summit there was a presentation byt SRA people\nabout using background writer to do CHECKPOINTs which seemed very\neffective for removing the performance gap caused by CHECKPOINT.\n\nHas any of it been submitted for 8.2 ?\n\n-- \n----------------\nHannu Krosing\nData...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi guys,\n\nI've attached as much as I've done so far on the GIN docs. It's not a\nlot, but I'm afraid with the feature freeze in effect, I'm just not\ngoing to have the ability to get them done by the RC date.\n\nThe main problem was I just strugged to fully understand it all :(\n\nAnyway, ...
[ { "msg_contents": ">>> The procedure entry point ldap_start_tls_sA could not be located in\nthe\n>>> dynamic link library wldap32.dll.\n>>\n>> I'd counsel just leaving --with-ldap off until Magnus gets back\n>> from vacation. We can always revert the patch later if he can't\n>> fix it.\n> \n> Looking at the MS...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all..\n\nThere's some way to find the template of a database in SQL (using 7.4)?\n\n[]'s\n- Walter\n", "msg_date": "Fri, 18 Aug 2006 12:51:27 -0300", "msg_from": "\"Walter Cruz\" <walter.php@gmail.com>", "msg_from_op": true, "msg_subject": "find the template of a database i...
[ { "msg_contents": "This is my first post to a PostgreSQL mailing list, so please forgive me \nif I have posted to the wrong place\n\nCurrently pg_dump has flags for dumping only table definitions and/or \ndata. These flags are respectively:\n--schema-only\n--data-only\n\nI propose that two more be added:\n--tab...
[ { "msg_contents": "More to come, but these two are probably worth backpatching. Sequences\nwere not being shown due to the use of lowercase 's' instead of 'S', and\nthe views were not checking for table visibility with regards to\ntemporary tables and sequences.\n\n--\nGreg Sabino Mullane greg@turnstep.com\nEnd...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI was using OidInputFunctionCall() to cast a basic type into a domain\ntype. But when I saw\n\n/*\n * As above, for I/O functions identified by OID. These are only to be\n * used in seldom-executed code paths. They are not only slow but leak\n * memory.\n */\nDatum\nOidInputFunctionC...
[ { "msg_contents": "We have still another complaint here:\nhttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2006-08/msg00109.php\nabout pg_dump failing to cope nicely with any slightly-unusual\ncondition related to a SERIAL column. We've had previous\ndiscussions about this, most recently this thread:\nhttp://archives...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nThe following bug has been logged online:\n\nBug reference: 2585\nLogged by: \nEmail address: mafm@users.sourceforge.net\nPostgreSQL version: 8.1.4\nOperating system: GNU/Linux\nDescription: Please provide pkg-config support\nDetails: \n\nI haven't found a suitab...